NCTE 2007

I'm doing a session at the National Council of Teachers of English in New York City on Sunday, 11/18. Here's a link to the presentation slides. and another link to additional resources mentioned at the presentation.

Since 1911, NCTE has worked to advance teaching, research, and student achievement in English language arts at all scholastic levels.

NCTE - about

student work

Here's a link to some enhanced podcasts and videos that students did at Nancy Miller Day, an arts celebration day at Judge. Most of these students had never really used GarageBand for enhanced podcasts or shot much video, so what they did from start to finish in three hours shows what students can do with little time or guidance.

Nancy Miller Day 2004

Thursday, April 26 is Nancy Miller Day. Here's a link to an enhanced podcast of a previous Nancy Miller Day at Judge in 2004.

Podcast examples

Postscript: The Communiqué from the 2013 Future of Education Summit identified five wicked problems facing education. One of those was how to preserve the digital expressions of our culture and knowledge. I've seen that first hand as the server no longer exists that hosted some of the earliest podcasts my students had done in 2005. That's too bad because they were excellent audio pieces. To remedy that I'll start collecting some recent ones from my students.

• Abbie and Jackie on gun control (2013)
• David's interview of Aidan McDonald, a student who's a guitarist for the band The Departure

Communiqué from the 2013 Future of Education Summit

Original post (the server that hosted these files crashed, so they no longer exist. Sorry)
Here are some examples of podcasts the students did this year in my 9th grade Journalistic Writing class. They represent a wide variety of writing modes. The students were highly engaged in the process of composing for online audio.

• Iraqi journalist speaks to our class (news story)
• Harp (column writing)
• Christmas memories (whole class mix)
• Author Dana Reinhardt visits our school (news & review)
• Football (sports)
• MySpace (opinion)